Week 13 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

Week 13 of training is nearly complete. All that remains are a run home from work this evening and a final run tomorrow. Those two runs will bring me up to 90 (56 miles) km for the week, the second time during this training cycle I have completed that much mileage in a week. Right now I need just over 16 km between my two remaining runs to hit 90 km.

While I was unable to get in a speed interval workout for the second week in a row, it was another solid week of training with marathon pace runs Monday and Thursday and my usual hill training on Tuesday.

To make up for the lack of speed intervals yesterday I ended up doing two marathon pace runs yesterday. The first was a run of just under 9 km on my way home from work and the second was a run of just under 5 km later at night which I managed to finish just as it started raining heavily.

Speaking of two run days, I just mentioned I had one yesterday. I am doing the same thing today in order to get in a few extra miles to help me hit 90 km for the week. Since both of yesterday’s efforts were marathon pace efforts today’s runs will both be easy efforts. I got in the first of those workouts and lunch and will complete the second on my way home from work.